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Sevco Fans Are Drowning In An Ocean Of Bitterness And Won’t Even Grab For The Rubber Ring.

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Last night, as people will be aware, Phil Mac Giolla Bhain published an article about the Sevco fans group Club 1872. It said that Phil had gotten confirmation from someone close to the action that the organisation had secured funding from an external agency – a high street bank who Phil knows the identity of but did not name – to allow them to take part in the share issue which Dave King says will happen later on this month.

That share issue has not been properly organised at the time of writing this. It remains nothing but conjectural. There is every chance that the courts will explicitly prevent it as King has yet to fulfil the terms laid down by the Takeover Panel of the City of London.

There are a number of key points that emerge from that article, the most potent of which is the exact figure they’ve secured in financing; £2 million. There are a number of people who are under the mistaken impression that this figure was in the article on which Phil based his piece; actually the £2 million figure was revealed by Phil himself. People with the text of the original piece in front of them are welcome to read through it and verify that.

The initial piece appeared on a website called Davie’s Left Peg.

I’ve looked in on that site a couple of times, and the writers are clearly not members of the King fan club.

Nor do they wholly trust the Club 1872 board, nor the links that organisation still has with one James Blair.

They are correct not to. The piece they put up and which Phil wrote about was a perfectly valid, perfectly logical, and wholly responsible one. They were informing the club’s supporters and the membership of Club 1872 about something that they’d heard and which impacted upon them.

You would have thought they would have appreciated the wider audience for their piece, especially when that greater circulation increased the chances of getting the media interested and asking hard questions on their behalf.

But appreciation was not how they chose to react; they reacted, as Sevco fans so often do, with bile.

With innuendo.

With smear.

And in a particularly disgusting form, which that site has previous for.

They changed the entire text of the article to label Celtic fans and our club as co-conspirators in a crime.

We all know which one. I’m not going into it for even a second.

That did two things.

First it damaged their own cause because it removed a story that was gaining wide traction and a lot of attention. Phil was even good enough to link to it in his piece, which would have meant a huge upsurge in numbers. The self-defeating nature of it, the dummy out of the pram petulance, the pathetic reaction redolent of spoiled children or people too stupid to know when you’re doing them a favour, really was something to behold.

But it was the retreat towards their traditional gutter which was the most stand-out thing about the article they replaced the original with. These Peepul are quite literally drowning in an ocean of bitterness and hatred. It is engulfing them, and because of who’s name’s on it they won’t even grab for the rubber ring.

Even in a moment like this, when they know full well that the real enemy is inside their own walls, they cannot help themselves but lash out at those around them, the rest of the world, in which they see no good at all.

In my article last night, on this very subject, I expressed my profound and sincere sympathy for the Sevco fans who have invested their money in Club 1872 and are effectively powerless to stop the dilution of their shareholding and the appropriation of their hard-earned cash for purposes other than what they gave it for, just so that a convicted tax fraudster who’s in open violation of a UK court order, can behave like the cock-of-the-walk.

I meant every word and although I got a little stick from some of my own guys over it I stand by the sentiment.

And I feel even sorrier for them tonight that his is the state of the leadership within their own ranks, on the sites they should be looking to for information and help in what’s coming. Because in one sense, I understand the anger in the new text on that website; they resent any interference in what they see as an internal matter, and I can respect that even if I find it loathsome how they chose to express themselves.

Because, of course, they are right; this is their mess to sort out. It really doesn’t have anything to do with the rest of us, and only they can resolve this. My point is that they’d have a better chance of doing it if they could lay aside their virulent detestation, bordering on psychosis, for anybody who’s not “one of them.” For what does that even mean tonight when it’s their own who they’re accusing, and perhaps justifiably, of robbing them blind?

For the record, and just so this is clear, we aren’t the ones who did this to them. We’re not the ones who cheered Whyte through the gates of Ibrox, nor welcomed Charles Green with open arms, or rolled the red carpet out for Ashley or campaigned vigorously for Dodgy Dave King.

We did, however, try to warn them about those people beforehand.

Sympathy is impossible to sustain for some of them because they really do deserve everything they get.

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